The decision was made on the same day that the Ministry of Public Security spokesman announced that the Security Investigation Agency had executed the decision to prosecute the accused, the arrest warrant for temporary detention and the search warrant against Mr. Do Thang Hai (60 years old), Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, for the crime of Receiving bribes.

According to the new assignment decision, Minister Nguyen Hong Dien is responsible for leading and comprehensively managing all aspects of the Ministry's work; directing strategic work, planning and major balance in industry development; personnel organization, inspection, legal affairs, international economic integration; emulation, rewards and discipline; in charge of the energy sector; planning and use of land resources in the sector.

The Minister of Industry and Trade directly directs the following units: Department of Organization and Personnel, Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry Inspectorate; Office of the Party Committee; and directs the implementation of state management in the fields of oil, gas, and electricity.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan directs work in the fields of competition management, consumer rights protection; trade defense; export, import, handling of issues related to trade balance and trade services; scientific research, technology, food safety, e-commerce and digital economy; chemical industry; information technology, environment; flood and storm prevention and control; fire and explosion prevention and safety; training; oil and gas, coal; market management; electricity, renewable energy; national defense and defense industry; crime prevention; Directs work in the fields of domestic market development, trade promotion, mechanical industry, manufacturing industry, supporting industry, metallurgy and minerals.

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Ministry of Industry and Trade headquarters on Hai Ba Trung Street. (Photo: Anh Van)

Deputy Minister Tan is also assigned to assist the Minister in directing international economic integration work; in charge of press information work and as spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Trade; in directing work in the field of women's advancement; and as Head of the Government Negotiation Delegation on international economics and trade.

Many units previously assigned to Deputy Minister Do Thang Hai are now directly assigned to Deputy Minister Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan, such as the Domestic Market Department, the Department of Industry (for work related to mechanical industry, manufacturing industry, supporting industry, metallurgy and minerals), the Department of Trade Promotion...

Along with that, Deputy Minister Nguyen Sinh Nhat Tan directed the units: Department of Multilateral Trade Policy, Department of Trade Defense, Department of Science and Technology, National Competition Commission, Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy, Department of Industrial Safety Techniques and Environment, Department of Chemicals, Department of Import and Export and Institutes, Schools under the Ministry, Party Committee of the Ministry, Department of Oil and Gas and Coal, Department of Energy Saving and Sustainable Development, Department of European - American Market (for work related to the European market), Electricity Regulatory Authority, Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy, General Department of Market Management...

Deputy Minister Tan, on behalf of the Ministry, directs the implementation of state management in the fields of chemicals, coal and mineral industry. Participates with the Minister in directing the implementation of state management in the fields of oil, gas and electricity.

Deputy Minister Phan Thi Thang directs work in the fields of planning, investment, finance, enterprise innovation, local industry and trade, collective economy, office work, administrative reform, light industry including consumer industry, food industry and other processing industries; In charge of health protection - medical care, population and family planning.

Deputy Minister Thang directly directs the following units: Department of Asian - African Markets, Ministry Office, Department of Planning - Finance, Department of European - American Markets (for work related to the American market), Department of Local Industry and Trade, Department of Industry (for work related to light industry including consumer industry, food industry and other processing industries), Center for Health - Labor Environment of Industry and Trade.

On behalf of the Ministry, direct the implementation of state management in the fields of textiles, beer - alcohol - soft drinks, tobacco, paper, and enterprises in the light industry sector.

Deputy Minister Thang was assigned to represent the Ministry to direct the implementation of state management of the Engine and Agricultural Machinery Corporation - JSC, the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Corporation - JSC, the Vietnam Industrial Construction Joint Stock Corporation and commercial enterprises (BMC Trading Materials and Construction Company, General Construction and Import-Export Joint Stock Company,...).

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